From: Breitbart
by Andre Walker
Australia’s policy on plain tobacco packaging was dealt another blow this week as police raided a series of premises involved in the supply of counterfeit cigarettes. According to a Channel Seven News report (below) about a raid on illegal cigarette sales in a Sydney market, the policy has boosted counterfeiting and smuggling by about 40 percent.
Now that cigarette packaging is much easier to copy, seizures of illicit sticks is up from 82 million in 2012 to 200 million last year. To make matters worse, local Police Officer Rodney Smith said that no one could be sure what the counterfeit cigarettes contained, although in laboratory tests they are regularly found to contain chemicals that are not allowed to be added by legitimate manufacturers.
